I’ve released WWW::Yahoo::Movies which is a Perl extension to the Yahoo! Movies. I found many Perl modules related with Yahoo! and I decided to create another one which can help people to get information about movies. WWW::Yahoo::Movies has basic functionality. It can retrieve movie information (title, prodaction date, distributor name, plot summary, cover image file address etc) by its title or Yahoo! Movies ID. I’m […]
Yet Another DBI Extention
Recently I’ve found a simple DBI wrapper – DBIx::DWIW – Do What I Want. It seems this module contains a set of methods which have more native syntax and original features. There are a couple methods which I have seen and found interesting: FlatArray(sql_string) – passes a SQL string and returns a record set as simple flat array. It’s very useful for example if a […]
SugarCRM and multiple databases
When I’ve tried to develop my own module to integrate SugarCRM and RT2 I was surprised SugarCRM dosn’t suport using more than one database at one time! I’m a new in PHP. That’s why I spent a time to find why SugarCRM didn’t work at all! Probably, it is not good solution to connect to the database directly instead of using some webservice. But RT2 […]
PDF Merge
Recently I’ve faced with problem of creation one PDF file from many PDF files. I’ve found pdfmerge4unix. Basically, this is a simple Perl script which uses GNU Ghostscript to copy source PDF files into one PostScript file and then converts it into PDF. I’ve modified a little pdfmerge4unix: added possibility specify absolute path to the source files; added possibility to display some useful debug information; […]
XML/SWF Charts
During my work with SugarCRM I’ve found an intersting tool to generate charts – XML/SWF Charts. This is a simple tool based on Macromedia Flash and XML. You need to create a simple XML file which contains data and chart parameters and pass it to SWF script. This approach can be used on Perl, PHP etc. It’s simple, power and looks very attractive (much better […]
RT: ticket owner reminder
rt_reminder.pl is Perl script for RT2 which gets a list of all tickets which are steel new or open and examines a date of creation last attachement (only for type ‘Creation’, ‘Comment’ or ‘Correspond’). If this date is less than specified, script put remind message into ticket.
Sleep: Perl on Java
I see amusing situation in evolution of programming languages. While Perl, PHP and Python try to extend thier functionality to reach Java (key word ‘class’ and ‘extend’ in PHP, for example), Java goes back to level of scripting languages. As exaple, you can see Sleep Scripting Project which is similar to Perl by ideology but based on Java. Now Java developers can produce some console […]
RT Essentials
Our company uses RT (Request Tracker) for long time and I play sometimes with it to customize for our business. RT is an enterprise-grade ticketing system which enables a group of people to intelligently and efficiently manage tasks, issues, and requests submitted by a community of users. RT is a pure Perl application and in my mind it can be shown as the best example […]